Collin

“So we believe that, ethically, a policeman’s crimes are no different from a street thug’s.​ Or do we?​ Not as far as I can tell.​ I think San Franciscans are much more likely to express fear and anger at the idea of a policeman committing lawless violence.​ Don’t you find this slightly odd?​ Which would you rather be hit over the head by: a policeman, or a mugger?​ I would rather not be hit over the head at all, thank you.”
― Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“In government, selective disclosure creates a power network between the press and its sources.​ This network does not produce money, but just power.​ The power is shared between the sources and the journalists.​ The whole system is about as transparent as mud.”
― Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“The voters, by themselves inconsiderable unities, acquire a value in the hands of dexterous agents.​ This value is realised by many means—mainly, by bribery in innumerable forms, from gifts of money and trifling articles, to the distribution of places in the services, the financial departments, and the administration.​ Little by little a class of electors has been formed which lives by the sale of votes to one or another of the political organisations.​”
― Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“Everyone wants there to be a body out on a table, but no, it was clean. Not that it would be that big a deal – when you are around a funeral home a lot you get used to the idea that a dead body is just a thing.”
― David V. Stewart, Eyes in the Walls